Monday, May 23, 2005

Free Viagra!

I realize this is a complete oversight, and was not done on purpose, but I think we need to watch current and former prisoners a bit closer.

I personally wonder how anyone in their right mind could think this was (or should) tax deductible. That would be like and counterfeiter writing off his PC, printer, ink on his taxes.

On a positive note, I have only one more session (after tonight) with my mentor for "One on One Discipling". Tonight's session is on temptation. Although the section was short, I am sure we will have a lot to discuss.

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On a lighter note, I went with my US Army Reservist son to see the latest installment in the Star Wars saga, "Revenge of the Sith". My son and I have seen every Star Wars movie in the theaters together ever since Lucas re-released the original 3 episodes with newer special effects. It has been a father and son tradition. We almost missed this one, simply because my son and I have a busy week ahead of us and he leaves for basic training on Monday of next week.

This movie was OK, but I agree with Donald Sensing over at "One Hand Clapping" that it only deserves "6 out of 10 light sabers". We went at 8:45 PM and I was rather excited. I had read some of the spoilers (they usually enhance the movie for me) but I must say that the action was good, the visuals were great, the acting very forced and wooded (even with the veteran actors), the story line was pretty good, but the dialog made me groan. Audibly. More than once. It had funny parts (The Wookiee Tarzan style yell and the scenes where Yoda kicks some serious butt), but the love dialogue was horrible. Mr. Lucas, PLEASE do not write any more movies. If you must create episodes 7,8, and 9, let someone else do it.

It is a great story (the entire Star Wars Saga I mean) of good versus evil, but in this episode, the bad guys win (to be expected, to keep in line with episode 4) and it is much darker than the other movies. More graphic in places and the CGI well done.

A bit of trivia for you: Episode 6 was initially going to be called Revenge of the Jedi", but after some of the promo posters were printed up, someone realized that Jedi were not supposed to seek revenge, so it was renamed to "Return of the Jedi". Just and FYI. I knew a collector who had one of the promo posters...it is worth a small fortune I hear.

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